Strongsville police placed the area around Trotwood Park under special attention after several calls to the area Nov. 24.SUN NEWS FILE PHOTO

MISCHIEF, TROTWOOD PARK: A woman called police after her home was toilet-papered at approximately 8:30 p.m. Nov. 24 by a group of three or four teenaged boys.

The woman also said a few houses on the street have had problems with mischief, including her neighbor, whom boys had been taunting and throwing garbage onto his lawn.

On Nov. 20, the neighbor told police a group of about five or six teenagers rang his doorbell at 8:25 p.m., and taunted him for not wearing a shirt when he answered.

Officers checked the area, but couldn’t find the youngsters.

The man called back about 30 minutes later and said the boys were back taunting him again. Officers again checked the area, but were unable to locate the group.

The area was placed on special attention.

RECOVERED PROPERTY, ROYALTON ROAD: An officer was patrolling the parking lot at Holiday Inn at 2 a.m. Nov. 25, and ran the license plate on a 1994 Buick, which came back registered to a stolen vehicle. Two Cleveland men were in the Buick, which was registered to a Painesville woman and was stolen from Newburgh Heights, according to records.

Officers also found a wallet in the vehicle belonging to a Guernsey County woman.

The two men were each charged with receiving a stolen vehicle, a felony, and their case is being handled by Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court.

DRUG ABUSE, PEARL ROAD: Three men in a 1996 Oldsmobile near Whitney Road at about 11:45 p.m. Nov. 23 were stopped after the car nearly sat through two green lights and drove very slowly, police said. Officers found all three of the men drinking in the car, and also found marijuana on each one of them.

Officers also found a shotgun in the trunk, and a detective is deciding whether to file charges on that.

Each of the men was charged with open container and possession of marijuana.

DRUNKEN DRIVING, WEST 130th STREET: A North Royalton woman, 20, was pulled over for speeding near Royalton Road at 2:40 a.m. Nov. 24 after officers paced her at 48 mph in a 35 zone.

Officers suspected the driver had been drinking, and took her back to the station for a test. Officers also found out she had a previous drunken driving charge.

SUSPICIOUS SITUATION, PEARL ROAD: Police were told a man was doing drugs with "a needle and some powder" in a black SUV at 12:50 p.m. Nov. 23, near the Salvation Army.

When officers arrived, the accused agreed to a search of the vehicle, which turned up nothing but a sign reading "Will Work for Food." There was another group of people holding the same sign just down the road, and the accused said they may have called to "get rid of the competition."

DRUNKEN DRIVING, PROSPECT ROAD: A PT Cruiser with Texas license plates rolled over and was leaking gas at 7:55 p.m. Nov. 22, and the driver and a passenger fled on foot towards Creekside Drive, but the driver left her license behind.

Officers found the Dallas woman at about 8:30 p.m., and arrested her for drunken driving after she registered a blood-alcohol content level of 0.221. She was also charged with hit/skip and failure to stay in her lane.

HIT/SKIP, TANBARK LANE: A little old-fashioned detective work by Strongsville police over a span of about 20 minutes resulted in a man being cited for hit/skip and his car towed at 4 a.m. Nov. 22.

Officers were told that a driver destroyed part of a white fence near the intersection of Albion and Eastland roads at 3:47 a.m.

At 4 a.m., an officer found a piece of plastic from the undercarriage of a Nissan, and at 4:01 a.m. the same officer found a damaged Nissan at a home on Idlewood Trail, and knocked on the door at 4:06 a.m.

The Cleveland man was at his grandfather’s home and admitted to driving the Nissan. Police determined he hit the fence and cited him.

DISORDERLY CONDUCT, PEARL ROAD: A caller told police a couple in a blue Toyota had pulled two u-turns on Pearl Road and almost hit a car and did hit a telephone post at 3:45 a.m. Nov. 22, before pulling into the parking lot of Metrick’s Motel.

Police approached the car and found they had run into the same couple 40 minutes earlier at the Royalton Road BP station when police stopped the woman, who said she was upset and not feeling well. Her boyfriend responded to drive her home.

It was on their way home on Interstate 71 north when the woman started trying to jerk the steering wheel, the man said, so he exited onto Pearl Road and the woman started jerking the wheel again, causing him to hit the telephone pole.

Officers charged the woman with disorderly conduct.

DISORDERLY INTOXICATION, DRAKE ROAD: A man and woman were driving around the parking lot of Strongsville Deli Stop, and witnesses said the woman was giving customers a hard time at 9:15 p.m. Nov. 20.

Police responded and found the woman, who was not wearing shoes, was intoxicated, and charged her with disorderly intoxicated.

CIVIL MATTER, COUNTRY WAY: A resident purchased a home from a bank short sale, and when they arrived to their new abode Nov. 19, they found an unexpected visitor in the form of a 2012 Mercedes Benz in the garage.

The previous owner had left the vehicle, and an officer told the new homeowner to contact the car owner’s realtor to have the car removed.

FRAUD, CARLTON COURT: A man realized his identity was stolen when he got a call from a Key Bank associate Nov. 19 to confirm an email from his Hotmail account requesting a transfer of $16,000 to a bank account in Anchorage, Alaska.

The man changed his email password and the bank closed his account while the hacking was investigated.

UTILITY – WATER, ADAMS DRIVE: Police were told that water was bubbling up out of the ground at 7:30 a.m. Nov. 19, near the entrance to A Slice Above on Pearl Road, in what turned out to be a water main break.

Officers later reported that water was 2-3 inches deep on Adams Drive near the curb, but it did not pose a problem. The break has been repaired.

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